Daily Wisdom

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"Listen more than you talk. Whatever the context, people will think you’re smarter" - Esther Dyson

"Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive" - Howard Thurman

"Once you understand that habits can be rebuilt, the power of habit becomes easier to grasp, and the only option left is to get to work" - Charles Duhigg

"Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you, and you can change it. You can influence it. You can build your own things that other people can use" - Steve Jobs

 

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"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity" - Robert Heinlein

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self" - Ernest Hemingway

"Don’t make decisions when you’re angry. Don’t make promises when you’re happy" - Author unknown

“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals" - Sirius Black

 

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[Championfighter25]

''Opportunity is missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work'' - Thomas Edison

''The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones'' - Confucious

''Life does not occur in compartments. Whatever impacts you personally will leak into your professional life, and vice versa'' - Marlene Chism

''Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce'' - Vivian Komori

 

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''Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve either one'' - Benjamin Franklin

''Monsters don't sleep under your bed, they sleep inside your head'' - Author unknown

''Laziness means more work in the long run'' - C.S. Lewis

''Many of life's problems come from 2 things: we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting'' - Zig Ziglar

 

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[Championfighter25]

''Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean'' - Bob Dylan

''Life is like a confused teacher... first she gives the test and then teaches the lesson'' - Aubrey Graham ( Drake )

''When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground'' - African Proverb

''Forgiveness is the final form of love'' - Reinhold Niebuhr

 

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[Championfighter25]

''Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice'' - Otto von Bismarck

''If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late'' - Henny Youngman

''Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please'' - Mark Twain

''All generalizations are false, including this one'' - Mark Twain

''You’ll never be as lazy as whoever named the fireplace'' - Author unknown

 

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“I did not care for the things that most people care about– making money, having a comfortable home, high military or civil rank, and all the other activities, political appointments, secret societies, party organizations, which go on in our city . . . I set myself to do you– each one of you, individually and in private– what I hold to be the greatest possible service. I tried to persuade each one of you to concern himself less with what he has than with what he is, so as to render himself as excellent and as rational as possible.”
~Socrates.

 

[Championfighter25]

"Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television" - Woody Allen

"The more you know, the sadder you get" - Stephen Colbert

"People who criticize you have usually never achieved anywhere near what you have. Most of them would be too scared to even try" - Ricky Gervais

"Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world" - Jim Carrey

 

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[Championfighter25]

''If you're helping someone and expecting something in return, you're doing business not kindness'' - Author unknown

''The best apology is changed behavior'' - Author unknown

''The worst kind of sad is not being able to explain why'' - Author unknown

''Having depression is being in an abusive relationship with yourself'' - Emily Dotterer

 

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“And therefore if the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul; that is the first and essential thing. And the care of the soul, my dear youth, has to be effected by the use of certain charms, and these charms are fair words; and by them temperance is implanted in the soul, and where temperance comes and stays, there health is speedily imparted, not only to the head, but to the whole body.”
~Socrates.

 

[Championfighter25]

''Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry'' - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

''Never let your fear decide your fate'' - Author unknown

''Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed'' - Bob Riley

''You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you'' - Dan Millman

 

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“God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us. ”
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“Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, 'both you and your house.”
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“For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles.”
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“One day, the old wise Socrates walks down the streets, when all of the sudden a man runs up to him "Socrates I have to tell you something about your friend who..."
"Hold up" Socrates interrupts him "About the story you're about to tell me, did you put it trough the three sieves?"
"Three sieves?" The man asks "What three sieves?"
"Let's try it" Socrates says.
"The first sieve is the one of truth, did you examine what you were about to tell me if it is true?" Socrates asks.
"Well no, I just overheard it" The man says.
"Ah, well then you have used the second sieve, the sieve of good?" Socrates asks "Is it something good what you're about to tell me?"
"Ehm no, on the contrary" the man answers.
"Hmmm" The wise man says "Let's use the third sieve then, is it necessary to tell me what you're so exited about?"
"No not necessary" the man says.
"Well" Socrates says with a smile "If the story you're about to tell me isn't true, good or necessary, just forget it and don't bother me with it.”
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“…money and honour have no attraction for them; good men do not wish to be openly demanding payment for governing and so to get the name of hirelings, nor by secretly helping themselves out of the public revenues to get the name of thieves. And not being ambitious they do not care about honour. Wherefore necessity must be laid upon them, and they must be induced to serve from the fear of punishment. And this, as I imagine, is the reason why the forwardness to take office, instead of waiting to be compelled, has been deemed dishonourable. Now the worst part of the punishment is that he who refuses to rule is liable to be ruled by one who is worse than himself. And the fear of this, as I conceive, induces the good to take office, not because they would, but because they cannot help — not under the idea that they are going to have any benefit or enjoyment themselves, but as a necessity, and because they are not able to commit the task of ruling to any one who is better than themselves, or indeed as good. For there is reason to think that if a city were composed entirely of good men, then to avoid office would be as much an object of contention as to obtain office is at present…”
~Socrates.

 

[Championfighter25]

''Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better'' - Maya Angelou

''Too often, feeling intimidated becomes our excuse not to be awesome'' - Scott Stratten

''Someone who is worthy of your love will never put you in a situation where you feel you must sacrifice your dignity, your integrity, or your self-worth to be with them'' - Author unknown

''Admit when you're wrong. Shut up when you're right'' - John Gottman

 

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[Championfighter25]

''The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be'' - Ralph Waldo Emerson

''Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door'' - Coco Chanel

''You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and by falling over'' - Richard Branson

''Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them'' - Ann Landers

 

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[Championfighter25]

''The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion'' - Tim Ferris

''If you want peace, be above your desires. If you want meaning, change something important to you'' - Maxime Lagacé

''If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change'' - John A. Simone Sr

''All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride'' -Sophocles

 

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“Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.”
~Socrates.

 

[Championfighter25]

''To say goodbye is to die a little'' - Raymond Chandler

''You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock'' - Robert Brault

''It’s okay to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really, brave'' - Author unknown

''Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around'' - Leo Buscaglia

 

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[Championfighter25]

"To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden" - Seneca

"Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response" - Viktor Frankl

"When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn’t have to look outside themselves for approval" - Epictetus

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants" - Epictetus

 

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“As for me, all I know is that I know nothing, for when I don't know what justice is, I'll hardly know whether it is a kind of virtue or not, or whether a person who has it is happy or unhappy.”
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“The law presumably says that it is finest to keep as quiet as possible in misfortunes and not be irritated, since the good and bad in such things aren't plain, nor does taking it hard get one anywhere, not are any of the human things worthy of great seriousness.... One must accept the fall of the dice and settle one's affairs accordingly-- in whatever way argument declares would be best. One must not behave like children who have stumbled and who hold on to the hurt place and spend their time in crying out; rather one must always habituate the soul to turn as quickly as possible to curing and setting aright what has fallen and is sick, doing away with lament by medicine.”
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“Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.”
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“I thought that as I had failed in the contemplation of true existence, I ought to be careful that I did not lose the eye of my soul; as people may injure their bodily eye by observing and gazing on the sun during an eclipse, unless they take the precaution of looking at the image reflected in the water, or in some similar medium. ...I was afraid that my soul might be blinded altogether if I looked at things with my eyes or tried by the help of my senses to apprehend them. And I thought that I had better had recourse to ideas, and seek in them truth in existence. I dare to say that the simile is not perfect--for I am far from admitting that he who contemplates existence through the medium of ideas, sees them only "through a glass darkly," any more than he who sees them in their working and effects.”
~Socrates.

 

[Championfighter25]

"We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will" - Chuck Palahniuk

"No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away" - Terry Pratchett

"There’s always some truth behind “just kidding”, knowledge behind every “I don’t know”, emotions behind “I don’t care” and pain behind “it’s okay” - Author unknown

"Learn to judge your moves by their long-term effects on people" - Robert Greene

 

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“Would that the majority could inflict the greatest evils, for they would then be capable of the greatest good, and that would be fine, but now they cannot do either. They cannot make a man either wise or foolish, but they inflict things haphazardly.”
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“It is only in death that we are truly cured of the 'sickness' of life.”
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"...each individual can only do one thing well. He can't do lots of things. If he tries, he will be jack of all trades, and master of none.”
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“Do you know that the spectator is the last of the rings which, as I am saying, receive the power of the original magnet from one another? The rhapsode like yourself and the actor are intermediate links, and the poet himself is the first of them. Through all these the God sways the souls of men in any direction which he pleases, and makes one man hang down from another. Thus there is a vast chain of dancers and masters and undermasters of choruses, who are suspended, as if from the stone, at the side of the rings which hang down from the Muse. And every poet has some Muse from whom he is suspended, and by whom he is said to be possessed..."
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“We approach truth only inasmuch as we depart from life. For what do we, who love truth, strive after in life? To free ourselves from the body, and from all the evil that is caused by the life of the body! If so, then how can we fail to be glad when death comes to us?
The wise man seeks death all his life and therefore death is not terrible to him.”
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I was attached to this city by the god—though it seems a ridiculous thing to say—as upon a great and noble horse which was somewhat sluggish because of its size and needed to be stirred up by a kind of gadfly. It is to fulfill some such function that I believe the god has placed me in the city. I never cease to rouse each and every one of you, to persuade and reproach you all day long and everywhere I find myself in your company.”
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“There is one way, then, in which a man can be free from all anxiety about the fate of his soul - if in life he has abandoned bodily pleasures and adornments, as foreign to his purpose and likely to do more harm than good, and has devoted himself to the pleasures of acquiring knowledge, and so by decking his soul not with a borrowed beauty but with its own - with self-control, and goodness, and courage, and liberality, and truth - has fitted himself to await his journey in the next world.”
~Socrates.

 

[Championfighter25]

''Sometimes home isn’t four walls, it’s two eyes and a heartbeat'' - Author unknown

''When you’re happy you enjoy the music, when you’re sad you understand the lyrics'' - Author unknown

''Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it'' - Søren Kierkegaard

''The prettiest eyes have cried the most'' - Author unknown

 

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“If the soul is immortal, it demands our care not only for that part of time which we call life, but for all time: and indeed it would seem now that it will be extremely dangerous to neglect it. If death were a release from everything, it would be a boon for the wicked. But since the soul is clearly immortal, it can have no escape or security from evil except by becoming as good and wise as it possibly can. For it takes nothing with it to the next world except its education and training: and these, we are told, are of supreme importance in helping or harming the newly dead at the very beginning of his journey there.”
~Socrates.

“...y observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether... [like] when [people] watch and study an eclipse of the sun; they really do sometimes injure their eyes, unless they study its reflection in water or some other medium.”
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“If it were said that without such bones and sinews and all the rest of them I should not be able to do what I think is right, it would be true; but to say that it is because of them that I do what I am doing, and not through choice of what is best - although my actions are controlled by Mind - would be a very lax and inaccurate form of expression.”
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“Suppose... that you acquit me... Suppose that, in view of this, you said to me 'Socrates, on this occasion we shall disregard Anytus and acquit you, but only on one condition, that you give up spending your time on this quest and stop philosophizing. If we catch you going on in the same way, you shall be put to death.' Well, supposing, as I said, that you should offer to acquit me on these terms, I should reply 'Gentlemen, I am your very grateful and devoted servant, but I owe a greater obedience to God than to you; and so long as I draw breath and have my faculties, I shall never stop practicing philosophy and exhorting you and elucidating the truth for everyone that I meet. I shall go on saying, in my usual way, "My very good friend, you are an Athenian and belong to a city which is the greatest and most famous in the world for its wisdom and strength. Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible, and similarly with reputation and honour, and give no attention or thought to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul?" And if any of you disputes this and professes to care about these things, I shall not at once let him go or leave him; no, I shall question him and examine him and test him; and if it appears that in spite of his profession he has made no real progress towards goodness, I shall reprove him for neglecting what is of supreme importance, and giving his attention to trivialities. I shall do this to everyone that I meet, young or old, foreigner or fellow-citizen; but especially to you my fellow-citizens, inasmuch as you are closer to me in kinship. This, I do assure you, is what my God commands; and it is my belief that no greater good has ever befallen you in this city than my service to my God; for I spend all my time going about trying to persuade you, young and old, to make your first and chief concern not for your bodies nor for your possessions, but for the highest welfare of your souls, proclaiming as I go 'Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the State.' ...And so, gentlemen, I would say, 'You can please yourselves whether you listen to Anytus or not, and whether you acquit me or not; you know that I am not going to alter my conduct, not even if I have to die a hundred deaths.”
~Socrates.

 

[Championfighter25]

''Live your life as you see fit. That’s not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit'' - Anthony de Mello

''The greatest use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it'' - William James

''For better or worse, what you allow will continue'' - Paulo Coelho

''Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn'' - Benjamin Franklin

 

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“Is something good because the gods approve of it? Or do the gods approve of it because it is good?”
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“...I have had a remarkable experience. In the past the prophetic voice to which I have become accustomed has always been my constant companion, opposing me even in quite trivial things if I was going to take the wrong course. Now something has happened to me, as you can see, which might be thought and is commonly considered to be a supreme calamity; yet neither when I left home this morning, nor when I was taking my place here in court, nor at any point in any part of my speech did the divine sign oppose me. In other discussions it has often checked me in the middle of a sentence; but this time it has never opposed me in any part of this business in anything that I have said or done. What do I suppose to be the explanation? I will tell you. I suspect that this thing that has happened to me is a blessing, and we are quite mistaken in supposing death to be an evil. I have good grounds for thinking this, because my accustomed sign could not have failed to oppose me if what I was doing had not been sure to bring some good result.”
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“Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings....the men of old who gave things their names saw no disgrace or reproach in madness; otherwise they would not have connected it with the name of the noblest of all arts, the art of discerning the future, and called it the manic art....So, according to the evidence provided by our ancestors, madness is a nobler thing than sober sense...madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.”
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“...f at the time of its release the soul is tainted and impure, because it has always associated with the body and cared for it and loved it, and has been so beguiled by the body and its passions and pleasures that nothing seems real to it but those physical things which can be touched and seen and eaten and drunk and used for sexual enjoyment; and if it is accustomed to hate and fear and avoid what is invisible and hidden from our eyes, but intelligible and comprehensible by philosophy - if the soul is in this state, do you think that it will escape independent and uncontaminated?”
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“Perhaps someone may say 'But surely, Socrates, after you have left us you can spend the rest of your life in quietly minding your own business.' This is the hardest thing of all to make some of you understand. If I say that this would be disobedience to God, and that is why I cannot 'mind my own business', you will not believe that I am serious. If on the other hand I tell you that to let no day pass without discussing goodness and all the other subjects about which you hear me talking and examining both myself and others is really the best thing that a man can do, and that life without this sort of examination is not worth living, you will be even less inclined to believe me. Nevertheless, that is how it is, gentlemen, as I maintain; though it is not easy to convince you of it.”
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“I would rather die having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live.”
~Socrates.

 

[Championfighter25]

''Your urge to control life controls you'' - Mooji

''You are only as mentally tough as your life demands you to be. An easy life fashions a mind that can only handle ease. A challenging life builds a mind that can handle challenge. Like a muscle that atrophies without use, mental strength fades unless it is tested. When life doesn’t challenge you, challenge yourself'' - James Clear

''Living doesn’t cost much, but showing off does'' - Jeffrey D. Sachs

''When all of your free time is spent catching up or getting ahead, that’s not free time'' - Courtney Carver

 

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[Championfighter25]

''When we eliminate effort, we eliminate life’s pleasures'' - Thibaut

''If you approach life as though you have something to gain from it, you will never stop searching for things you do not have'' - James Pierce

''Don’t trade your authenticity for approval'' - Kanye West

''Failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result'' - Michelle Obama

 

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[Championfighter25]

''Being truly wealthy does not require having many things; rather, it requires having what one longs for. Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire'' - Alain de Botton

''Knowledge will give you power, but character will give you respect'' - Bruce Lee

''Not taking things personally is a superpower'' - James Clear

''He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived'' - Chinese proverb

 

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[Championfighter25]

''An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity'' - George Santayana

''The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse'' - Edmund Burke

''War does not determine who is right – only who is left'' - Bertrand Russel

''Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose'' - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

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[Championfighter25]

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind" - C.S. Lewis

"Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes" - Swami Vivekananda

"People’s expectations from you are their problem, not yours" - Thibaut

"Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart - Author unknown

 

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[Championfighter25]

"Things worth having are worth waiting for" - Paulo Coelho

"If you have the courage to put your intellectual integrity before your reputation, nothing can break you" - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Virtue is what you do when nobody is looking. The rest is marketing" - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Failure hurts but passes quickly. Regret hurts forever" - Shane Parrish

 

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[Championfighter25]

''Not knowing is not failure. It’s the first step to understanding'' - Richard Feynman

''Courage is the power to let go of the familiar'' - Raymond Lindquist

''Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness'' - Desmond Tutu

''So far you’ve survived 100% of your worst days. You’re doing great'' - Author unknown

 

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[Championfighter25]

"Whomever envies another confesses his superiority" - Samuel Johnson

"The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you" - Bette Midler

"Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts" - Jean Vanier

"We are always trying to become something else. We are always trying to become noble, to become a hero, an example, an ideal; and if we really go behind this urge to become, we will find that there is envy and that behind that envy there is fear, the fear of what one is" - Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

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“It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.”
~Søren Kierkegaard.